Tag: <span>active euthanasia</span>
An 83-year-old Canadian woman died on 10 July following a lethal injection under Canada’s MAiD programme. Her family claims that she had rejected euthanasia…
A 26-year-old Algerian knocked a man to the ground in Valencia and repeatedly jumped on his head while he lay unconscious in the street.…
Yet another Canadian is sounding the alarm after confronting what he calls a “death cult” within the public healthcare system: His wife was allegedly…
A severely disabled Canadian man has gone public with a plea for help. He claims that doctors and hospital staff are pressuring him to…
France is following in the footsteps of the Netherlands, Belgium and Canada, where euthanasia laws have been progressively expanded to encompass ever more groups…
In a scientific article, Robert Truog, a professor at Harvard University, proposes abolishing the “Dead Donor Rule” – the rule that a donor must…
The decline of the West is the decline of Christianity, brought about by Protestantism and the Enlightenment, argues Michel Houellebecq. Reason scarcely reaches what…
A child under the age of twelve has, for the first time, been euthanized in the Netherlands. The case once again raises questions about…
Active euthanasia is often presented as the most humane response to unbearable suffering. Yet a society’s moral maturity is also measured by its ability…
A coalition of 90 organisations in the fields of human rights, disability and medicine is urging the Canadian government to abandon its plans to…
A study estimates that expanding Canada’s assisted dying programme to include “vulnerable non-consenting groups” could save the strained public healthcare system well over a…
The Danes have the opportunity to take a citizen’s initiative to have a case taken up in the Folketing. Some think it is important…